North Carolina Top Things To See
• View the attractions along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore (website: www.nps.gov/caha) including the Outer Banks ponies, Bodie Island, and the candy-striped Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the nation's tallest and most famous.
• Tour the restored New Bern's Tryon Palace (website: www.tryonpalace.org), built in the 1760s as the first permanent capital and home for the Royal Governor of North Carolina.
• Visit New Bern's Fireman's Museum (website: www.newbernmuseums.com), formed by the two oldest continuously operated fire companies in the USA. Included in the exhibits is ‘Fire Horse Fred', who pulled the fire-hose wagon for 17 years. He died in 1925 while pulling the fire wagon to a false alarm.
• Across the river from Wilmington's Cotton Exchange, tour the USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial (website: www.battleshipnc.com), and walk the decks of this famous WWII battleship. Her story is told on summer nights in ‘The Immortal Showboat', a spectacular sound and light show.
• View the works by Botticelli, Monet, Raphael and Rubens at the North Carolina Museum of Art (website: www.ncartmuseum.org) in Raleigh.
• Visit Durham, known as ‘The City of Medicine'. The city is home to the world-famous Research Triangle Park, where over 150 research and development facilities are based (website: www.rtp.org), and Duke University (website: www.duke.edu) with its lovely chapel and gardens.
• Journey through the Morehead Planetarium (website: www.moreheadplanetarium.org) in Raleigh where more than 100 of the USA's astronauts trained before venturing into space.
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